Don’t waste time with anger, regrets, worries, and resentments. Life is too short to be unhappy, said Roy T. Bennett. He was right because toxic feelings should have no place in our lives. Being happy and making others happy will take us where we want to be.
Hippocrates, for his part, said: “Healing is a matter of time, but sometimes it’s also a matter of opportunity.” And today, far from that era, we agree with him because time heals our wounds. As long as we truly want to heal them and are allowed to do so.
Five minutes are enough to dream a lifetime, said the poet Mario Benedetti. The good moments are rare and are the ones we remember most as the years go by.
Our lives are unique, and we should make the most of them. Perhaps that’s why Hans Christian Andersen said, “Enjoy life. There’s plenty of time to be dead.”
Modern life is designed to do everything quickly. For the invention of the internet, text messages, soft drinks, and instant coffee, and airplanes bring us closer to countries and cities thousands of miles away in hours.
Perhaps that’s why, or for other reasons, Mahatma Gandhi said, “There is more to life than the mere increase in its speed.” It’s worth stopping and reflecting. Then, to become more aware of the present and how to live it.
You can delay, but time won’t, Benjamin Franklin observed. And he reasoned well because time will stop for no one and can cause you to miss out on once-in-a-lifetime opportunities.
For Walter Lang, “time was God’s first creation,” because with the beginning of time, creation began.
Regarding time, Evelyn Waugh concluded: “Punctuality is the virtue of the dull.” But it’s worth considering that the unpunctual person is usually so due to the excess of projects they carry. And the punctual person due to the lack of them. But it’s also a question of respect and knowing how to manage one’s time.
For Calviño, the most famous Cuban psychologist, waiting shouldn’t be sitting in front of the sea or a beautiful mountain landscape. Rather we should “do,” while we wait for the results of economic projects like the one we Cubans are experiencing these days.
For the industrialist Henry Ford, most people spend more time and energy focusing on problems than trying to solve them. Which is why I think that dwelling on problems is often a mania that doesn’t lead us to truly address them.
For the great English writer George Orwell, “who controls the past controls the future, who controls the present controls the past.” It’s true that with our actions we control our lives, and our management of time dictates where it will take us.
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